Earlier Established Forms

Sources

found: Hawley chem. dict.(polymerization: a chemical reaction, usually carried out with a catalyst, heat or light, and often under high pressure, in which a large number of relatively simple molecules combine to form a chain-like macromolecule)

found: Hackh chem. dict.

found: LC database, March 6, 1989.

found: Polymer sci. dict.(polymerisation: British form)

found: Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, Nov. 2002:p. 395 (Polymerization is the synthesis of high-molecularweight compounds (polymers) by successive addition of a low-molecular-weight compound (monomer) to the active site at the end of the growing polymer chain)